How do I get the current time in Elm?

Question

I\'m running elm-repl to play around with the language.

I\'d like to see what the current time is. How would I do that? It doesn\'t appear to be possible with the c

Answer 1

If you want the time as of program start you can do the following:

Now.elm

module Now where

import Native.Now

loadTime : Float
loadTime = Native.Now.loadTime

Native/Now.js

Elm.Native.Now = {};

Elm.Native.Now.make = function(localRuntime) {

  localRuntime.Native = localRuntime.Native || {};


  localRuntime.Native.Now = localRuntime.Native.Now || {};

  if (localRuntime.Native.Now.values) {
    return localRuntime.Native.Now.values;
  }

  var Result = Elm.Result.make(localRuntime);

  return localRuntime.Native.Now.values = {
    loadTime: (new window.Date).getTime()
  };

};

your code

programStart = Now.loadTime